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Professional Development & National Writers' Conference

Changing Pace: Words Beyond the City

Launch into travel and experiential-based storytelling with three of EWF’s favourite emerging, regional-based writers. Discover what life beyond the city brings to their practices, and how attending writers’ festivals is shaping their careers.

Single sessions tickets showing up as sold out? You can still attend this event by purchasing a 2024 NATIONAL WRITERS’ CONFERENCE pass. With a NWC pass you get access to the full weekend to advance your skills, meet other writers, industry folk and get insider industry info.


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Accessibility

Wheelchair, Service Animal, Quiet Room (Reception/Level 3 Library), Hearing Loop, Accessible toilets

Saturday 7 September, 4:15PM


The Wheeler Centre
Performance Space Level 2, 176 Lt Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 3000, VIC

Featuring...

Elena Hogan

Elena Hogan is an emerging writer and artist working on unceded Wurundjeri land. Since 2021, Elena has dedicated herself to her debut novel, Everything Before Gia, a family saga, queer mystery and social commentary on transgender rights. She has been published by Farrago, Voiceworks, the Emerging Writers Festival and Regional Arts Australia.

Josh King

Josh King is a musician and poet based in Berrin/ Mount Gambier, South Australia. He has participated in several projects with Writers SA, Mount Gambier Fringe, and is one half of the electronic music group Sexy As Shit.

Haneen Mahmood Martin

Haneen Mahmood Martin is a Kuala Lumpur -born, Malay-Saudi multi-arts programmer, producer, writer, and artist based in Narrm/Melbourne. She creates and seeks art that highlights the everyday rituals that make life meaningful, the precarity of memory as a means of holding knowledge, and the connection and understanding that sharing food can bring – creating a space for our ordinary stories in the archives.

Levin Shillam

When you hear the words Levin Shillam you might think of great sprawling deserts and tumbleweeds drifting past. But in actual fact, Levin Shillam is one of those writing people… or an aspiring one. He likes to write comedy and absurdism, in the forms of audio drama, poetry, short fiction and the occasional stage play. In 2023, he was part of Regional Arts Australia’s writing program, Regional Scribes, and was published in their book, You Together. As of today, he studies at the University of Newcastle and is working on an audio drama miniseries.